The European Parliament adopted by 286 votes to 180,
with 114 abstentions a resolution on alleged transportation and
illegal detention of prisoners in European countries by the CIA.
The resolution was tabled by the Greens/EFA, S&D, ALDE and
GUE/NGL groups.

It deeply deplored the failure to implement the
recommendations contained in its resolution of 11 September
2012, notably by the Council, the Commission, the governments of
the Member States, the candidate states and the associated
countries, NATO, and the United States authorities, especially in
the light of the serious fundamental rights violations suffered by
the victims of the CIA programmes. Members considered that the
climate of impunity regarding the CIA programmes has enabled the
continuation of fundamental rights violations in the
counter-terrorism policies of the EU and the US, as further
revealed by the mass surveillance programmes of the US National
Security Agency and surveillance bodies in various Member States,
which are currently being investigated by Parliament.

Accountability process in the Member
States:Parliament asked Member
States to investigate whether operations have taken place whereby
people have been held under the CIA programme in secret facilities
on their territory. It made specific requests addressed to the
following Member States: France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
the UK, Finland and Sweden.

Response of the EU institutions: Parliament professed itself highly disappointed by
the Commission's refusal to respond in substance to Parliament's
recommendations, and it reiterated its specific recommendations to
the Commission from its previous resolution. It also reiterated its
specific recommendations to the Council, and called on both
institutions to include, in their respective multiannual programmes
succeeding the Stockholm Programme, specific measures to ensure the
rule of law and accountability for fundamental rights violations,
especially by intelligence services and law enforcement
authorities.

Members recalled that it is essential, in order to
ensure Parliament's credibility, to substantially reinforce its
rights of inquiry for investigating fundamental rights violations
in the EU, which should include full power to hear under oath
the people involved, including government ministers. They called on
the next Parliament (2014-2019) to continue to implement the
mandate given by the Temporary Committee and consequently to ensure
that its recommendations were followed up.

Democratic scrutiny:
Parliament stated that it expected its inquiry into the US National
Security Agency surveillance programme and surveillance bodies in
various Member States to propose measures for effective democratic
parliamentary oversight of intelligence services, considering that
democratic scrutiny of those bodies and their activities through
appropriate internal, executive, independent judicial and
parliamentary oversight was essential.

Guantanamo Bay:
Parliament called on the US Government to cooperate with all
requests from EU Member States for information or extradition in
connection with the CIA programme. It urged the US to stop using
draconian protective orders which prevented lawyers acting for
Guantánamo Bay detainees from disclosing information regarding
any detail of their secret detention in Europe. Member States were
asked to step up their efforts to resettle non-European detainees
released from Guantánamo who cannot be repatriated to their
home states because they are under threat of death, torture or
cruel and inhumane treatment.